Busabase for Cline

Connect Cline to Busabase

Open-source autonomous coding extension for VS Code and JetBrains, with its own Remote Servers tab for MCP.

Paste this into Cline

Read https://busabase.com/SETUP_SKILL.md and set up Busabase for me. Follow it through to the end, then confirm the connection works.

Read the Cline Skills documentation

Busabase

Agent Skill

Give your agent this one instruction

You end up with more than a connector: the busabase skill carries the whole change-request workflow, the CLI, and the full API — available in every future session without re-pasting anything.

Asks first

Busabase Cloud or Personal Desktop — your call, before anything happens.

Connects

Signs you in and stores the credential itself. No API key to copy by hand.

Seeds a Base

Creates and fills your first Base, so the workspace is not an empty screen.

Installs the skills

busabase and busabase-app-creator become permanent, for every session after this.

Install the Busabase skills

npx skills add busabase/skills

For this agent

Cline asks for approval per command by default. Approve the setup steps, or enable auto-approve for the session.

Prefer a connector?

If you would rather wire Busabase in as MCP tools than let the agent install a skill, use the server URL below.

Cline MCP documentation

At a glance

Vendor: Cline
How it connects: MCP + API key · Plugin / Skill
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Authentication: API key
Config file: ~/.cline/data/settings/cline_mcp_settings.json (CLI, override with CLINE_MCP_SETTINGS_PATH); IDE extension: MCP settings JSON via the Configure tab

Add Busabase to the CLI settings file ~/.cline/data/settings/cline_mcp_settings.json (path overridable with CLINE_MCP_SETTINGS_PATH), or use the stacked-server icon → Remote Servers → Add Server in the IDE extension. The CLI also has an interactive wizard (cline mcp add opens it with the fields filled in) to list, add, edit or remove servers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "busabase": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://busabase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_BUSABASE_API_KEY>"
      },
      "disabled": false,
      "autoApprove": []
    }
  }
}

In the IDE, pick Streamable HTTP as the transport type. Then ask the agent to call auth_verify.

Create the API key at a changeRequest permission level so Cline can propose changes but never merge them itself.

Known gotchas

Cline's docs describe header-based auth rather than OAuth, so use a Busabase API key in the `headers` block. Set `"type": "streamableHttp"` explicitly instead of relying on the default. Correction (2026-11-09, current vendor docs): the CLI's MCP settings file is `~/.cline/data/settings/cline_mcp_settings.json`, not the `~/.cline/mcp.json` path this record previously carried. The current docs also show the CLI wizard can run or rerun browser OAuth authorization for a remote server, but they do not state the registration mode, so the documented Busabase path remains the API-key header above and auth-mode stays api-key.

How it compares

Connection capabilities side by side with other agents already in this directory.

Capability	Cline	Claude Code	Cursor
Type	IDE plugins	Terminal agents	AI editors
Recommended path	Agent Skill	Agent Skill	Agent Skill
How it connects	MCP + API key · Plugin / Skill	MCP + OAuth · Plugin / Skill	MCP + OAuth · Plugin / Skill
Transport	Streamable HTTP	Streamable HTTP	Streamable HTTP
Authentication	API key	OAuth (dynamic registration)	OAuth (dynamic registration)

These stepsFrom official docsLast checked Nov 9, 2026

Written from this agent's own documentation. We have not re-run every step on a real machine, so check the linked docs if a command has changed.

Where these steps come from Official site

Let your agent do the setup

One instruction, one authorization, and every change it makes afterwards carries a message and a diff you can check or revert.

Browse every agent

Paste this into Cline

Read https://busabase.com/SETUP_SKILL.md and set up Busabase for me. Follow it through to the end, then confirm the connection works.